Quotes About Stigma

Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.

of 'base-born old folk or ignorant and simple people, vulgar rustics', or of women

Stabilire il numero delle donnine allegre è un'impresa disperata. Anzitutto la categoria si presta male a una precisa definizione perché tra i due estremi di «donna onesta» e «prostituta pubblica» esiste tutta una vasta gamma di condizione intermedie dai contorni confusi.

Ronald Reagan breezily shared anecdotes about how Lyndon Johnson's Great Society handed over hard-earned taxpayer dollars to a "slum dweller" to live in posh government-subsidized housing and provided food stamps for one "strapping young buck" to buy steak, while another used the change he received from purchasing an orange to pay for a bottle of vodka. He ridiculed Medicaid recipients as "a faceless mass, waiting for handouts." The

It's like they can smell the public school on me.

He said that he would sooner kill himself than leave his children." "And what did you say?" "I said I think that all children do better with happy parents than married parents. I said there's no stigma about divorce anymore.

You're the nice, quiet alcoholic. The good intellectual alcoholic.

Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It's better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?

about a year after that, I was invited to go to a mental hospital. And, you know, you don't want to be rude, so you go.

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

Oh, and my form of mental illness is also a tiny bit infectious by the way. I may have gotten it from Amy Winehouse's toilet seat. So

I was invited to go to a mental hospital. And you know, you don't want to be rude, so you go.

Just because you're not uptight doesn't mean you're irresponsible. And vice versa. When will those Conservatives ever learn?

We're werewolves. We don't get to judge 'crazy.

Practically all of the successful Negroes in this country are of the uneducated type or of that of Negroes who have had no formal education at all.

Q. Why don't they work harder? A. They just don't like hard work. The Germans have a reputation for hard work, so they like to keep it up. The British find it boring.

Everyone knew that bastards were wanton and treacherous by nature, having been born of lust and deceit.

The attitude of these people puzzled him. Was not Black-No-More getting rid of the Negroes upon whom all of the blame was placed for the backwardness of the South?

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb . . . and I also know that I'm not blonde.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No, if it were, men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It's a blunder, though, and is punished as such.

Why is it when we talk to God we are said to be praying, and when God talks to us we're said to be schizophrenic?

I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing other patients.

The rich can be "eccentric," the poor have to be considered "nuts."

In Ireland, a writer is looked upon as a failed conversationalist.